Admin Notes Advanced

This add on is great! I have a small suggestion if you're making improvements. I wish I could code PHP but I'm damn usless with it (now if you need help with Windows or networks, that's another matter).

It would be more convenient for there to be an "add admin note" button in the same place as order and packing slip when looking at the customers screen.

The current click, click, click to get to the ability to actually add a note to a customer is a bit, well, inefficient. This is what I primarily use this function for myself.

Thanks for a very useful mod.

@maxus: I think my latest version does what you are asking, and I probably will release it soon.

@atsak:

The current click, click, click to get to the ability to actually add a note to a customer is a bit, well, inefficient.You are right of course. For some reason I did not want to change any core code when I wrote the add on, that is why the click, click, click, method was invented :D
But adding some buttons here and there should be quite easy, especially at places where the needed id is already available. I think I will be able to look into it within a couple of days (or hours or weeks or.....).

New version uploaded.

version 0.95

• updated admin\includes\init_includes\init_notes_notifier.php
  Selecting an order will also trigger the customer notes now. So if there is a note about a customer it will pop up on all orders of that customer.

• updated admin/notes.php
  a) Added details to detailed view
  b) Several minor code changes (fixed some navigation issues)

To update from 0.914 to 0.915 only copy both updated files (over writing the older versions)
(Probably) available soon via: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1210

No time to fully solve the "click click click" issue yet though, so it's not in this version yet. It's not difficult, but time flies....

Just installed this plugin, very nice :clap:

It would be nice if product notes came up on orders like the customer notes do.

That way, if there's any issue with a product, you'd get an obvious notification when it was ordered.

mattw:

Just installed this plugin, very nice :clap:

It would be nice if product notes came up on orders like the customer notes do.

That way, if there's any issue with a product, you'd get an obvious notification when it was ordered.

Thanks for posting this observation.

I was not aware that the product and category notes were not appearing on orders. I actually went into my admin to do a 'test product note' so I could come back here and help you out by posting the steps to get a product or category note to appear on an order for that product and voila... you are right!

I need to go back now and see if i've missed any important notes over the past few weeks since I had no idea the product/category notes weren't showing up on orders :blush:

Perhaps this will be a feature that will be added in the future...

Still a SUPER GREAT MOD though, and can't imagine NOT having it now!

Zencart ROCKS :clap:

Hi. I'm new to Zen Cart and just installed the Notes Admin today. Is it possible to see notes during a customer listing, or only when selecting an individual customer? I'm only seeing it for individuals. Thanks, and thanks for a helpful mod.

Admin notes uses the Zen Cart $_GET variables (for example: cID is being used for the customers id). This means you need to select the customer (or order or product or category) to trigger a special note.

mattw:

It would be nice if product notes came up on orders like the customer notes do.

That way, if there's any issue with a product, you'd get an obvious notification when it was ordered.I agree it's interesting. It will probably take a while before I get to adding new features like that though.

Version 0.96 will be attached to this post for now. It (or a newer version) may be uploaded the the Zen Add Ons later.

This version solves the issue described by atsak:

atsak:

It would be more convenient for there to be an "add admin note" button in the same place as order and packing slip when looking at the customers screen.

The current click, click, click to get to the ability to actually add a note to a customer is a bit, well, inefficient.

The new button code to quickly add customer/product/order/category specific notes is currently included in admin/includes/header.php . It might be moved to (an)other file(s) in later versions. (It's a single line of code, so it's very easy to put it anywhere you like.)

EDIT: to upgrade from 0.951 only replace admin/notes.php and add admin/includes/boxes/notes_buttons.php
(and read readme-notes-buttons.txt)

Hi paulm

Thanks for this mod. The notes are a fabulous idea and the buttons make it much easier to use. Well...in my case the little red crosses where the buttons should be :) Would you mind telling me what I'd need to do to add button images (apart from making the .gifs)?

Kind regards
Philip

Just curious as to exactly what kinds of information can be stored in these notes.

We are wanting to be able to scan copies of invoices, shipping docs and other such information and store them in some scanned format with the order and/or customer file.

ANy suggestions?

THanks

Geronimo:

Hi paulm

Thanks for this mod. The notes are a fabulous idea and the buttons make it much easier to use. Well...in my case the little red crosses where the buttons should be :) Would you mind telling me what I'd need to do to add button images (apart from making the .gifs)?

Kind regards
Philip

I right clicked on each of the missing button images and viewed the properties of each button. This gave me the path, size and name of each one. I simply created the gifs and uploaded them to the appropriate directory. Now it all looks fine!

I guess this is incredibly basic...but I was pleased :)

Geronimo:

I right clicked on each of the missing button images and viewed the properties of each button. This gave me the path, size and name of each one. I simply created the gifs and uploaded them to the appropriate directory.That is how I would have done it too.

Maybe you can zip the buttons (+ directory structure) and upload it here, so the buttons can be added to the add on?

dkhoward:

Just curious as to exactly what kinds of information can be stored in these notes.Text only, no other data (and it's possible to use HTML, which is text too of course).

paulm:

That is how I would have done it too.

Maybe you can zip the buttons (+ directory structure) and upload it here, so the buttons can be added to the add on?

Good idea paulm. I've attached a file containing the five buttons needed for your contribution when using .gif files. The five buttons are:

Add Categories
Add Customers
Add Note
Add Orders
Add Products

The zip file contains these .gifs in the proper directory structure which is: admin/includes/languages/english/images/buttons/

The images have been optimized so they are each less than 400bytes. The colour was chosen to stand out - some may find it unpleasant :) I've only included English buttons.

I have installed this mod, but I'm not yet sure if it can do what I need it for.

I have a few customers who have past due balances. I want to add a note attached to the customer so that if a new order is received from that customer, the note will be displayed advising not ship until previous balance is paid, the note should appear on all orders from this customer.

Can this mod do that? I can't figure how to do it or whether the mod has this feature.

Thanks :)

Can someone confirm if the way you uninstall this mod is by just deleting the files uploaded and running these 2 sql statements?

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS notes;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS notes_categories;

Don't know much about this, so just want confirmation I won't mess up anything else.

Thanks.

tj1:

I want to add a note attached to the customer so that if a new order is received from that customer, the note will be displayed advising not ship until previous balance is paid, the note should appear on all orders from this customer.

Can this mod do that? I can't figure how to do it or whether the mod has this feature.That is possible. See my comment about version 0.95 a couple of posts back in this thread, and it's also described in the included readme file!

Can someone confirm if the way you uninstall this mod is by just deleting the files uploaded and running these 2 sql statements?

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS notes;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS notes_categories;That is correct. And if you have added the notes buttons code to your header.php file (as described in the included readme-notes-buttons.txt file) you may want to remove that too.

Just uploaded 0.96 to http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1210
(version 0.96 is about 6 months old now, just never got to uploading it to the Add Ons section until today)

I added the module per the readme.txt instructions and copied the buttons also, but I do not see the ADD NOTE button icons. Is there a step that I missed?